“Would a fly without wings be called a walk?”

“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“She knew intellectually that he was beautiful, the way the iridescent wings of a carrion fly would be.”

“Every time I try
To fly, I fall.
Without my wings,
I feel so small.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

“Call the sun in the dead of the night
And the sun gonna rise in the sky
Touch a man who can't walk upright
And that lame man, he gonna fly.
And I fly, yeah, And I fly.”

“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”

“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”

“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”

“They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”